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Business
FMCSA blocks Canadian trucker from U.S., citing violations of out-of-service orders
FMCSA said Gill âwillfully disregarded the out-of-service orderâ in three separate instances in four days and continued driving his truck before being shut down after the fourth order. He was also found to have surreptitiously taken his truck from a storage facility where it had been towed.
March 30, 2016
Business
Truck operators to take on most of driver training rule costs, per FMCSA figures
Drivers themselves will bear the bulk of the ruleâs costs, according to FMCSAâs calculations. The 30-day period for owner-operators and other industry stakeholders to file formal comments ends in a week.
March 30, 2016
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Hours of Service
Hours exemption for Oregon loggers extended per 2015-passed highway bill
The extension of the expiration date is in response to a provision in the December-passed FAST Act highway bill that extended exemptions in effect when the bill was enacted. The bill extended the exemptions to five years from the date they were were issued from two years.
March 28, 2016
Hours of Service
Request to allow some drivers to use detention time as off-duty time denied by FMCSA
An exemption request from the American Trucking Associations that would allow drivers to exclude detention time at a natural gas or oil well site from their total 14 on-duty hours has been denied by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
March 28, 2016
Business
FMCSA shuts down two-truck fleet in fourth carrier shutdown order of year
The agency says the two-truck N.C.-based carrier didnât follow hours of service rules, didnât properly maintain its equipment, didnât drug test drivers and more.
March 28, 2016
Business
Wyoming-based seven-truck carrier ordered to shut down following FMCSA investigation
Violations include: Failing to conduct pre-employment background checks on drivers, failing to ensure drivers were qualified before dispatching them, failing to properly monitor drivers to ensure compliance with hours-of-service requirements, using a driver who tested positive for a controlled substance and failure to maintain equipment.
March 24, 2016
Business
Annual Roadcheck inspection blitz dates set for early June
Approximately 75,000 inspections occur each year during the Roadcheck inspection blitz, done by a joint effort of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and others. Here are the dates for this yearâs Roadcheck.
March 23, 2016
Business
FMCSA orders recall-affected Volvo trucks out-of-service
Affected trucks include model year 2016-2017 VNL, VNX, and VNM trucks manufactured from May 11, 2015 through March 8, 2016.
March 23, 2016
Channel 19
âCSA-equivalentâ scoring pitched to brokers, shippers
Regarding its âCSA-eâ re-engineering of CSA percentiles, SaferWatch raises the specter of negligence lawsuits for brokers not utilizing available information assessing risks when selecting carriers â but if Congress and so many others are right, itâs never been a better time to stop such use altogether.
March 22, 2016
Business
Indiana steel co. petitions FMCSA to exempt its drivers from 14-hour rule
FMCSA has received an exemption request from ArcelorMittal-Indiana Harbor, asking that its truck operators be able to have 16 on-duty hours once starting their clock and be allowed to return to work with fewer than 10 consecutive hours off duty. The drivers in question only operate vehicles in and around the plant, the company says.
March 22, 2016
Business
Trucking pressure to stop FMCSA from working on new carrier rating system gains traction in House
âIt is irresponsible and inconceivable that FMCSA would use the same data and analysis Congress said is faulty in a new safety fitness determination,â the lawmakers write in their letter. The letter comes in response to requests by industry groups to halt FMCSAâs Safety Fitness rule pending a CSA revamp.
March 21, 2016
Business
Tomorrowâs Trucker: Wireless inspections: 24/7 exposure of truck, driver violations
Itâs easy to conjure a scenario of total on-highway enforcement of truck and driver regulations, enabled by a nationwide rollout of vehicle-to-infrastructure wireless communications. Growing industry adoption of telematics systems, work by FMCSA to ramp up wireless inspections and several other trends could lead to such a national system in the coming decades.
March 18, 2016
Business
U.S. accepts Mexicoâs truck inspection standards
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced this week it now accepts Mexicoâs criteria for annual inspection of trucks domiciled there after concluding its inspection standards were comparable to the United States.
March 18, 2016
Business
S.C. driver shut down after involvement in fatal hit-and-run, Mass. trucking company shut down
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued effective shutdown orders recently to a South Carolina-licensed driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run and a Massachusetts-based trucking company that failed to maintain equipment and oversee its drivers.
March 17, 2016
Business
Tomorrowâs Trucker: Advances in technology point toward hours relief
Technological advances over the next two to three decades could massage one of owner-operatorsâ biggest pain points: hours of service regulations seen as too restrictive for truckersâ productivity and too rigid for their highly variable schedules. Equipment innovations could play into the industryâs interest in either extending driversâ on-duty time or allowing greater flexibility in divvying it up.
March 17, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Change for the better or nails in the coffin: Talking the future with Gary Carlisle
Whether the future landscape of greater risk translates to a boon for the future generations of owner-operators willing to assume the risk themselves as independents, or not, is one of many areas discussed in this podcast conversation with current owner/former operator Gary Carlisle.
March 17, 2016
Business
DOT announces further delays in publication of speed limiter, CDL clearinghouse rules
The DOT pushed back the projected publication date of a rule to require speed limiters on heavy-duty trucks to April 22. A rule to implement a CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse is now projected to be published on July 28.
March 16, 2016
Business
Contract mail carriers denied 14-hour exemption request
A group of contract mail carriers have been denied an exemption from the 14-hour on-duty limit.
March 16, 2016
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